Supporting Made in America Energy Act

This bill sets rules about where the government must allow oil and natural gas drilling on public land and waters, and where it cannot. It requires the Department of the Interior to hold a minimum number of lease sales each year for drilling on federal land in certain states and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Cook Inlet, and it sets rules for how much companies must pay the government for those leases. At the same time, it extends and expands a ban on drilling in certain parts of the eastern and central Gulf of Mexico and adds new areas off the southeastern coast where drilling is not allowed. The bill also says the President must get approval from Congress before blocking or getting around federal energy leasing processes.

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